0 an official who has the legal authority to say that documents are correctly signed or true or to make an oath (= promise) official:
In addition, some categories of workers have their own special pension schemes : bank employees, notaries, self-employed university graduates, armed forces personnel and police force personnel.
Many entries from other notaries were also hand-copied.
Other occupational groups who were apparently more likely to sue than to be sued were yeomen, scribes and notaries, and apothecaries and barbers.
Another official, also a notary, was usually in charge of a district fair always located outside of the presidio itself.
To purchase a property, one first had to claim it via adjudication before a notary.
Notary records also include documents admitting to the former establishment of legal representation but designed to end such legal representation.
It established two ' tabellions ' (notaries) and a ' scelleur royal ' to register contracts.
The inventory listed very few material possessions that, according to the notary ' did not exist anymore since his sister had already taken care of them'.
